The steward behind one of Canada’s largest cancer charities takes us through money in, money out and money leveraged for maximum good.

How Strategic Partnerships Expand the Reach of Cancer Research: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Dajan O'Donnell, PhD Podcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · April 15 · 58m

Recently live: Me and O’Donnell - when you give to a cancer charity who are you giving to? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-this-is-b...

This has been so long in coming. Yet so needed

Economy passengers can soon pay to lie down and stretch out for a few hours in bunk beds on Air New Zealand’s newest planes. https://cnn.it/4enePJN

Today the long missed calendar of years past suddenly arrived again with the sad news of Gigi’s ascension to a higher modeling agency. Tonight I raise a glass to Gigi’s style and one of my favorite of her quotes: “People will always stare. Make it worth their time”

Sometimes celebrities pass by and you just have to stop and stare. Gigi was just such a cat. Her human, Reagan, is the daughter of one of my first patients and for years calendars of Gigi dressed in high fashion raised funds for lung cancer research and everyone’s spirits.

Maybe also small cell and other cancers like breast and melanoma as an adjunct to standard therapy as a brain protectant among those without such spread at diagnosis is huge.

Here you can see entrectinib (a ROS1 and NTRK inhibitor) has little or no effect in parenting lung or liver metastases in a mouse KRAS mutant model. But it obliterates CNS spread. The clinical potential for any company with an NTRK active drug to explore in nonALK/ROS1/NTRK positive lung cancer

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Neuro-Protective Benefit of Tropomyosin Receptor Kinase Inhibition in Non-Neurotrophic Receptor Tyrosine Kinase-Driven Lung Cancers - PubMed Hiding in Plain Sight: The Neuro-Protective Benefit of Tropomyosin Receptor Kinase Inhibition in Non-Neurotrophic Receptor Tyrosine Kinase-Driven Lung Cancers

This was the hypothesis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41563233/ - in essence drugs for ALK and ROS1 which also have anti-NTRK activity have too good a protective effect in the brain to just ascribe to being brain penetrant ALK or ROS1 inhibitors. The NTRK is doing something

Targeting wild type NTRK decreases brain metastases of lung cancers non-driven by NTRK fusions - PubMed These studies demonstrate that NTRK wild-type receptors are important drivers of brain metastatic colonization and progression in different subtypes of lung cancer, independent of their driver alterations. Thus, they provide rationale to expand the use of FDA-approved NTRK inhibitors with brain pene …

This, combined with the hypothesis published in JTO in the New Year open a new era of protectibg the brain from the spread of cancer. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41889924/

Keith Brown The Squirrel Moved In YouTube video by Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix

With so few views, this gem of a standup sermon experiment by my friend Keith Brown for his Unitarian church deserves a wider audience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=he6I...

Easter shadows

He caught the trial bug and retrained as a lawyer. Now the biggest personal litigator against Tobacco for smoking related diseases. His sense of justice is palpable

Recently live: Me and Alvarez - interviewing Alex was like reading an adventure novel - CIA in the house growing up, working as a homicide police detective during Miami ‘s cocaine wars, leading to presiding over the country’s largest police corruption case. Then, having watched that trial up close…

How a Passion for Justice Leads the Fight in Tobacco Litigation: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Alex Alvarez Podcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · April 1 · 1h 7m

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The most striking thing for me was the reveal that in hospital administration there are, perhaps obvious once seen, traditional AA roles. And Khari was well advised to steer clear of those. Also just what an amazing story of finding and using a mentorship team to the best way possible

How a Devotion to Heath Care Conquered Societal Barriers: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Khari Reed, MHSA, FACHE Podcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · March 18 · 1h 15m

Recently live on HTIBM: Me and Reed. My favorite thing of many about Khari Reed is the drive to succeed. And how the hardest things are done or asked of him or by him, and you admire him all the more. Wow! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Where we came from: In the oldest building on campus (Art Deco 1930s Building 500), they have kept this little waiting area. You can sit and have coffee marveling at generations using phone books and waiting for the phone booth to empty to make a call

The Oncologist’s Garden: Cycles. As the winter garden of my amaryllis blooms and fades, the spring work for outside begins again. Albeit in the headspin of sun, wind and snow at this time of year.

For some reason this Matisse joke popped into my head today, no doubt after a false shooter alert at my daughter’s school this week. I’m glad someone had gotten the joke way before me and had this painting ready.

A general pick me up for whatever ails you. Courtesy of one of my favorite patients.

Her enthusiasm and versatility were perfect for what I needed

The day before my second cycle of treatment I was taken out to a jazz club in downtown Denver - Dazzle, with an amazing jazz quartet led by Camilla Vaitaitis. I’m not cool enough to get Jazz but sitting in the dark, with music my mind can’t predict the direction it will go in frees you from thought,

His humble description of his own evolution from bench scientist to biotech ceo and the Highs and Lows of the journey is a delight to listen to.

Tim was known as the boy wonder when we were PhD students. Partly from his boyish looks but largely for his brilliance. How many PhDs contribute to a Nobel Prize? Then that experience of embracing science and industry led him to biotech

How an Interest in Scientific Intricacies Evolved to Transform the Biotechnology Field: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Tim Clackson, PhD Podcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · March 4 · 1h 5m

How This is Building Me - recently live: Me and Clackson. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Everyday Magic: on the walk back from the library yesterday I came across a fairy village. What I love most about this is both the person who built this and also the respect it has been given by passersby. No theft, no vandalism. Just shared magic.

2026 IASLC Targeted Therapies of Lung Cancer: Special Presentation by Dr. Ross Camidge YouTube video by IASLC IASLC

@drcamidge.bsky.social’s incredible presentation from #TTLC26 is now available online. Anyone who deals with cancer in any capacity should watch it. You might cry (I did) but it’s worth it. Thank you IASLC for making the presentation publicly available.

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Thanks so much Tara. Agree the truths are larger than the specifics. We all want to just put one foot in front of another. Illness doesn’t change that, only the effort required

Strange bedfellows: After a year of fighting like their namesakes, Atticus and Cleo found a cold evening and a warm fire can bring anyone together.